lividness
Example Sentences
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Coombe's still countenance was so deadly in the slow lividness, which Mademoiselle saw began to manifest itself, that she caught his sleeve with a shaking hand.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
She saw the face pale to lividness and the lips stiffen, but except for that, the man made no movement, and for some ten seconds he did not speak.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
Cy′anite, a mineral composed of alumina and silica, generally sky-blue; Cyanom′eter, an instrument for measuring the degrees of blueness of the sky or ocean; CyanÅ′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the imagination ascribes to phantoms.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules
The start, and the sudden lividness of the other’s countenance plainly visible in the moonlight, were answer enough.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
